Where does Ideal Clamp Products, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ideal Clamp Products, Inc. ranks #21,254 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Ideal Clamp Products, Inc. hold?

Ideal Clamp Products, Inc. holds 13 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is Ideal Clamp Products, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Ideal Clamp Products, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 33.6 out of 100 (top 55% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Ideal Clamp Products, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Ideal Clamp Products, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +350% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Ideal Clamp Products, Inc.'s patents?

Ideal Clamp Products, Inc.'s patents average 17.5 claims each. This is an aggregate descriptive count from the grant record; it does not establish claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk.

How is the Ideal Clamp Products, Inc. patent data sourced?

All patent data comes from USPTO PatentsView, a public research dataset maintained by the United States Patent and Trademark Office covering US granted utility patents from 2015 to 2025.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

Ideal Clamp Products, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Ideal Clamp Products, Inc. focus on?

Ideal Clamp Products, Inc.'s top technology area is F16L (PIPES; JOINTS OR FITTINGS FOR PIPES; SUPPORTS FOR PIPES, CABLES OR PROTECTIVE TUBING; MEANS FOR THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL) with 13 patents. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 13 granted patents across 6 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. Grant-trend analysis is cross-referenced to USPTO Patent Public Search; it does not measure application filings, current R&D, or legal strength. Primary class: F16L (PIPES; JOINTS OR FITTINGS FOR PIPES; SUPPORTS FOR PIPES, CABLES OR PROTECTIVE TUBING; MEANS FOR THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Ideal ranks #21,254 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 13 patents across 6 technology areas.

#21,254
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 55%
by Innovation Score (33.6/100): 17.5
avg claims per patent: +350%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R21254 · US Corporation #21,254 · 13 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 13 grants
MID-PACK #21,254/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Ibeo Automotive Syst…
CPC-NARROW F16L · 6 areas
INNOV-THIN 33.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +350% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ibeo Automotive Systems Gmbh (±0 grants)

Instrument codes from this assignee’s USPTO PatentsView grant sheet: volume band, corpus rank, photo-finish peer, lead CPC, Innovation Score, claim depth, assignee type, velocity, and book completeness. Not a USPTO rating of patent strength.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Ideal Clamp Products · this assignee

34
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Ideal's Innovation Score is 33.6/100 (top 55% of the PatentsView-derived corpus). The chart places that score against the nearest Innovation Score peers plus corpus poles, not a reprint of the volume ranking.

Where Ideal's grants concentrate

Ideal Clamp Products, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under F16L (PIPES; JOINTS OR FITTINGS FOR PIPES; SUPPORTS FOR PIPES, CABLES OR PROTECTIVE TUBING; MEANS FOR THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Ideal sits between Italdesign Giugiaro S.p.a. and Impact Engine, Inc..

Italdesign Giugia…

13
Iwaki

13
Izumi-cosmo

13
Ibeo Automotive S…

13
Ideal Innovations

13
Ideal Sanitary Wa…

13
Illen Products

13
Impact Engine

13
Ideal Clamp Produ… ◀

13

What this shows Ideal holds 13 patents at rank #21,280, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ideal

By rank, the assignees closest to #21,280 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16L (Pipes)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Ideal's primary technology class.

Ideal's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

Composite of portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth (0–100)

34 Top 55% higher than 45% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Ideal Clamp Products, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	7.7%
2018	1	7.7%
2020	4	30.8%
2021	1	7.7%
2022	3	23.1%
2024	1	7.7%
2025partial year	2	15.4%

Which technologies does Ideal Clamp Products, Inc. patent most?

F16L - PIPES; JOINTS OR FITTINGS FOR PIPES; SUPPORTS FOR PIPES, CABLES OR PROTECTIVE TUBING; MEANS FOR THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL 13

Y10T - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION 4

F16B - DEVICES FOR FASTENING OR SECURING CONSTRUCTIONAL ELEMENTS OR MACHINE PARTS TOGETHER, e.g. NAILS, BOLTS, CIRCLIPS, CLAMPS, CLIPS OR WEDGES; JOINTS OR JOINTING 3

B21D - WORKING OR PROCESSING OF SHEET METAL OR METAL TUBES, RODS OR PROFILES WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL 1

F16J - PISTONS ; CYLINDERS; SEALINGS 1

F01N - GAS-FLOW SILENCERS OR EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; GAS-FLOW SILENCERS OR EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR INTERNAL-COMBUSTION ENGINES 1

Top 6 of 6 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#21,254

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

33.6 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

Data sourced from USPTO PatentsView - official U.S. government patent data. See our methodology for computation details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainPatent

Disclaimer: This information is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute professional advice. Data is sourced from the USPTO PatentsView database. Consult a qualified professional before making decisions based on this data.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sources used on this page

USPTO PatentsView - the disambiguated bulk patent-grant, assignee, and CPC data this page's figures are derived from. patentsview.org
Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) - the joint USPTO/EPO classification scheme used to group patents by technology area. cooperativepatentclassification.org
USPTO Patent Public Search - the official interface to verify the status of any individual patent. ppubs.uspto.gov

Compiled by PlainPatent, US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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